perversity

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishperversityper‧ver‧si‧ty /pəˈvɜːsəti $ pərˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] STRANGEthe quality of being perverse Max refused the money out of sheer perversity.Examples from the Corpusperversity• With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.• The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.• My perversity had seemed to me amusing.• Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity, that mix totally inconsistent meanings.• But she was marrying Changez out of perversity, I was sure of it.• It was aware of being a scene of perversity, it knew its own despair.• I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.• Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.

单词	perversity
释义	perversity From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishperversityper‧ver‧si‧ty /pəˈvɜːsəti $ pərˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] STRANGEthe quality of being perverse Max refused the money out of sheer perversity.Examples from the Corpusperversity• With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.• The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time.• My perversity had seemed to me amusing.• Or words are preserved, perhaps through some occupational perversity, that mix totally inconsistent meanings.• But she was marrying Changez out of perversity, I was sure of it.• It was aware of being a scene of perversity, it knew its own despair.• I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.• Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
随便看	a mean between and a mean something a mean trick a means of livelihood a means of transportation a means to an end a means/source of livelihood a measure of a measure of something a meat thermometer a media etc blitz a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz a member of staff a mental disorder a mental hospital a mental/psychiatric disorder a mess of a mess of something a metre etc in depth a metre/foot etc in depth a mild dose of flu a milk etc bottle a million a millstone around neck a millstone round neck